October 2nd, 2016: Competition weekend @ Triple B Clays

Hi guys. The weekend planning was pretty dense. Triple B Clays was holding six competitions within two days as a warm up for the Nationals. It was a great opportunity for all shooters to test their ability on challenging targets.

I registered to shoot the 3 events on Saturday: 100-sporting target main, 50-target 5-stand and 50-target FITASC. Since I had my 4-year old son birthday party on Saturday afternoon I had no other choice than shooting the 3 events on Saturday morning. My planning of the day was definitely super tight: FITASC at 8am, Main at 9:45am and 5-Stand at 12pm.

Since it had been quite a bit since I had not shoot low gun, I completely struggled on the first two pegs of the first FITASC layout: I dropped 6 targets (5 singles) on tough targets and finally got more used to it and ended up with 18ex25. I won’t manage a lot better on the second layout but ended up with 20ex25 for a decent final score (38ex50) that led me 4th overall. HOA finishes with 41ex50.

I was definitely not happy with my shooting on the following shoots… I felt a lack of energy and will and dropped way too many targets: 84ex100 to finish only 6th overall. I still decided to shoot the 5-stand event and scored 41ex50 to finish 3rd overall.

After a finally decent night sleep, I decided to bring my 4-year old boy with me so he could enjoy a day out with his Papa. After leaving home around 8am, we got to Triple B early for the registration and decided to start shooting the main event. I was very fortunate to be part of an awesome squad: Galang, Fabrizio and Chad who are all top Master Class shooters.

I felt a lot better and more focused but misread a target on station 25: 4 misses… Despite this very bad station, I ended up with 92ex100 and 4th overall. My squad buddies took High Gun (Galang with 97), Runner Up (Chad with 96) and Fab shot a nice 87. We then moved onto 5-Stand and I shot 22 and 23 to finish Runner Up with 45ex50 when Chad shot an awesome 48ex50 to take High Gun.

I finished my day on the FITASC layouts. The targets were pretty challenging again even though a bit softer than Saturday’s. I shot only 40ex50 taking 6th overall. I guess these two days sucked too much energy and required too much focus. I feel like taking a small break this week and will probably not train. I think I’ve seen way too many targets flying lately… We’ll see how it goes.